libadwaita has a new About window, and GNOME apps are expected
to use it going forward instead of GtkAboutDialog.
Comments are meant to be detailed, and are no longer shown in the
main view. So we remove the old comments.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2373>
If one of these libraries breaks its GIR API in future, then upgrading
packages unrelated to gnome-shell might pull in the newer version,
causing gnome-shell to crash when it gets a newer GIR API that is
incompatible with its expectations. For example, this seems to be
happening in Debian testing at the moment, when GNOME Shell 41.4
imports GWeather and can get version 4.0 instead of the version 3.0 that
it expected.
Adding explicit API versions at the time the newer version is released
is too late, because that will still let the newer version of the GIR API
break pre-existing GNOME Shell packages. Prevent similar crashes in
future by making the desired versions explicit.
This is done for all third-party libraries except GLib, similar to the
common practice in Python code; if GLib breaks API, then that will be
a disruptive change to the whole GLib/GObject ecosystem, regardless.
Gvc, Meta, Shell, Shew, St are not included because they're private
(only exist in a non-default search path entry).
Clutter and Cogl *are* included, because we need to import the fork of
them that comes with Meta, as opposed to their deprecated standalone
versions.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1008926
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2261>
With the new borderless style of libadwaita, the global switch in the headerbar
did not look good. Moving it to the main view is the opportunity to also move
the content of the information popover.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2114>
If the finish function isn't specified, promisify will now try
to use the async name without '_async'/'_begin' suffix (if any)
and '_finish' appended.
Everything except IBus uses a variation of that pattern, so there's
quite a bit of boilerplate we get to remove…
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2174>
Replace deprecated functions with their direct replacements:
- dep.get_pkgconfig_variable() → dep.get_variable()
- prg.path() → prg.full_path()
- source/build_root() → project_source/build_root()
In one case we need meson.global_source_root() that was only
added in meson 0.58, so bump the requirement to that.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2077>
When the app is properly launched, D-Bus activation will be followed
by a call to org.freedesktop.Application.Activate() to open the window.
But it's also possible for D-Bus activation to happen in other
circumstances, for example during gdbus command line completion.
We don't want to pop up a window then, so pass the --gapplication-service
flag to properly separate D-Bus activation from activating the app.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2076>
We currently ignore any error that may occur when calling the
OpenExtensionPrefs D-Bus method. Right now such an error is highly
unlikely, given that we already checked that we are running under
gnome-shell and the extension in question exists and has prefs.
We'll soon make sure that only one dialog is shown at any time,
which is an error that we can realistically expect, so handle that
properly.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4564
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2013>
We have initTranslations() for binding an extension's
gettext domain, but nothing to help with using gettext
from an extension.
Such help would be useful though, as an extension that
calls textdomain() like a normal application would
inadvertently changes the default domain for the whole
gnome-shell process.
Instead, extensions have to use domain-specific versions
of the gettext functions:
```js
const Gettext = imports.gettext.domain('my-extension');
const _ = Gettext.gettext;
```
Make this a bit easier by adding those functions directly
to the extensions object when initTranslations() is called,
then expose helper functions for calling them.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2594
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1941>
